Look at this video. These controllers are in Nevada and are each flying a drone thousands of miles away in the combat zone in Iraq and Afghanistan . Their left hand is on the throttle controlling the drone’s engine. Note all the buttons which perform various tasks without removing the hand from the throttle. The… Continue reading Drone pilots… watch this video to see how they work
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UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) to the rescue… or not?
We have been reading about UAS’s for some time. Stories abound on how they have been used successfully to catch bad guys on the battlefield or in the course of police and border patrol interdiction operations. It was fun reading about them not least because of the comfortable feeling: they are here, sure, but not… Continue reading UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) to the rescue… or not?